Saturday, October 22, 2011

In another striking proof that the Obama administration is totally manipulated by feminists, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights sent out a 19-page "DCL" (Dear Colleague Letter) to colleges and universities that should make men fear attending college at all

writes Phyllis Schlafly, as she discusses the fact that college has become "a dangerous place for men. They are not only a minority, but they are victimized by discriminatory and unconstitutional anti-male rules."

The letter adopts the feminist theory that in all sexual controversies or accusations, the man is guilty unless he proves himself innocent.

… The most unconstitutional part of [feminist bureaucrat Russlynn Ali]'s impertinent DCL is that it orders colleges to reject use of the criminal justice standard of proof. The DCL rules that an accused man doesn't have to be judged guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt," or even the intermediate standard of "clear and convincing" proof.

… The feminist apparatus is constantly grinding out phony statistics about sexual assault and harassment, accusations that men are naturally batterers, and that women never lie or make errors in sexual allegations. The feminists are unrepentant about the way they and the prosecutors (toadying to the feminists) accepted and publicized lies that destroyed the reputations of the Duke lacrosse men and of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

This stagnation now finds 51 percent of Americans too poor to pay federal income tax (a modern record) while 47 percent of Americans receive at least one form of federal transfer payment (an historical high), as dependency on the ever-expanding state expands.

Friday, October 21, 2011

We are not talking about a few minor political accidents, or uneventful miscalculations. Generations of Europeans have been force-fed on the failed philosophy and now we see its collapse before our very eyes in slow motion. The illusion of climate warming and the delusion of the single currency are all symptoms of the same pseudo religion, anti-realistic notions spawned from the brains of progressive social engineers who sought to prevent the horrors of World War II. But they wittingly made the wrong analysis: the collectivist left was spared, while collectivist right bore the full brunt of the blame. But to find the true culprit they would have had to dig yet one layer deeper: collectivism itself. The Founding Fathers of Europe were mental midgets compared to the giants that founded the US. The result of the cosmopolitan globalist obsession was covert European integration, under false flag and against the will of the people.

When you see spontaneous social protests erupting from Tunisia to Tel Aviv to Wall Street, it’s clear that something is happening globally that needs defining. There are two unified theories out there that intrigue me. One says this is the start of “The Great Disruption.” The other says that this is all part of “The Big Shift.”

Whatever you say, Tom, but there is nothing new about some people threatening society to try to get something for nothing. They aren’t demanding ‘justice’. In fact they’ve been programmed to believe that justice has nothing to do with equal treatment under the law, but rather means transferring resources to those who neither earned it nor need it.

You also miss the fact that the United States is not Tunisia. The Kamp Marx-Engels Kidz have had more aid in the form of food stamps, freebies, and support than any people on earth outside of the Palestinian Authority. The ones that were marginally employable or employed have had the privelege of having access to 99 weeks of unemployment compensation at the expense of the 53% of the population that pay taxes, not their caricatures of “the 1% or the 99%”.

Pandering to an absurd form of equivalency that includes the poor and unemployed put on par with people who carry certain political opinions (such as environmentalists), Friedman carries on with his surrealism-based-community led nonsense:

This particular round of protests may build or may not, but what will not go away is the broad coalition of those to whom the system lied and who have now woken up. It’s not just the environmentalists, or the poor, or the unemployed.

The United States has the most progressive tax system of any real economy on earth, and yet to a boffin at the NYT, this puts us on par with politically repressed north Africans afflicted with hyperinflation.

Opposition has been growing to the Russians' twin towers project for la Défense, writes Isabelle Rey-Lefebvre in Le Monde, a project for which Vladimir Putin in person had promised Nicolas Sarkozy he himself (the Russian leader) would travel to Paris to set the cornerstone. But now a judge has issued a sentence forbidding the demolition of the buildings existent in the spot where the Hermitage towers are slated to be built.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Your favorite dirty old man can’t seem to stay off of the radar. This isn’t just a garden variety bimbo explosion. In fact it isn’t, as we were told months ago pointless dwelling on a private life for “just” a rape:

A prostitute, being questioned by French investigators over the emergence of an underage prostitute racket in France, has said that Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a senior police official organized an orgy in one of Paris' fanciest hotels.

The Daily Mail reports that police chief, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, who hoped to run a security operation for Strauss-Kahn if he became president of France, was accused by the prostitute of organizing the orgy in 2010. He is also said to have flown prostitutes to New York for Strauss-Kahn when the latter was working at the IMF, and was reportedly in Washington D.C. just before DSK was arrested in New York.

The prostitute was being questioned as part of an investigation into an underage prostitution ring that emerged in the French city of Lille.

Lille, being a sort of red-flag, fantasy Marxist dreamer’s paradise sounds like the right place to be for him to find the best protection from the locals, a sort of political capucha, if you will.

To quote on of the comments on the article:

This man ran the IMF. When did he concern himself with the finances of the world?

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said yesterday he was praying for Libya’s deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and also sent a message of solidarity to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against “Yankee” aggression.

Pictured on the front page of Le Monde, Bernard Squarcini is the object of Ariane Chemin's two-page spread investigation in which the head of France's counter-espionnage is under indictment for having put Le Monde's telephones under surveillance.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

True to form, some Europeans are mortified that the real economic crisis will take oxygen away from their fakecrisis.

The big problem is, of course, that Europe is not facing ONE emergency crisis but TWO interrelated and re-enforcing crises which both have their root cause in the fact that we have been living above our means. Our inherently growth-dependent casino economy has been based on financial debt (cheap money) and ecological debt (free ecosystem services and cheap oil). Now that we are witnessing the geopolitical shift to the emerging economies which want our way of life and our “wealth”, we have reached the limits of debt and the limits of growth. We have entered a fundamentally different world. From the rich and ivory towers of Brussels it seems hard to recognise that this transition to a post-growth, post-carbon economy needs a new Europe.

Affordable energy to fuel employment growth! How vile! Who are the louts who thought thatup?

And here I thought the “real” problem was still affluenza... Where did that feigned horror go? Nowhere! The anger and phoney resentment will never really notice that this contagion is the result of the soothing strokes of the velvet-gloved fist of the state collectively trying to #OccupyYourAnus in order to pretend that they can seem generous at the expense of the hardworking and productive.

Europe’s other big existential problem — coming to terms with the Muslim immigrants and Islamic communities in its midst — looks several steps further from resolution than the euro zone financial crisis

…no valid European response is at hand for the dilemma of how Europe manages to cope with millions of Muslim migrants and with it a two-sided subtext of terrorism, political killings, bigotry and fear.

But the issue is moving. It has evolved beyond questions of integration to focus on how Muslim immigrants ought to accommodate European law and custom. New French and German reports focus with considerable pessimism on incompatibilities taking root in what resemble parallel Muslim societies.

… Almost three months after Anders Behring Breivik’s day of hate-driven mass murder in Norway, there is nothing close to a European consensus about the meaning of his act, or any kind of public momentum to come up with joint European solutions to the broader issue of Muslim immigration.

Within the E.U. Constitution, immigration policy, with some exceptions, is largely a matter for individual states. The result is incoherence on the subject on the European scale. And without European cover, or the umbrella of an explanation that they’re doing the right thing for Europe, national politicians are hesitant to act decisively on touchy issues like job creation programs for migrants — perhaps the ultimate spur to integration — or setting parameters for their assimilation.

Europe’s inaction and seemingly wishful thinking about the possibilities for integration collide hard with the French and German reports on the most divisive aspects of separate cultural communities.

The French report involves months of investigation in Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil, two Paris suburbs where rioting in 2005, largely involving Muslim youth, resulted in the declaration of a national state of emergency. The 325-page report was produced by l’Institut Montaigne, a research organization, and led by Gilles Kepel, a political scientist and Arabist, who first wrote in 1987 on the emergence of Muslim communities in France [see No Pasarán's previous post on the subject].

Asserting that Clichy-Montfermeil was “emblematic,” the report found the riots and their aftermath there had shaken the French “tale” of Muslims accepting the values of the republic.

At the same time, it said that Muslim identity in the area had intensified, that Halal, the Islamic standard for what is acceptable or illicit in daily life, had become “ubiquitous,” and that marriage among Muslims was increasing to the point of obliterating the French notion that intermarriage outside the community would be the ultimate path to its integration.

It also spoke of fears developing that “civility” — in this case, a shared sense of general propriety — was endangered even among the suburbs’ young children. This was in spite of millions of euros being invested since the riots by the government into refurbishing or rebuilding the communities’ dilapidated housing project and public areas.

Mr. Kepel insisted that engagement in Islam was a response to, not the cause of, the community’s seeming alienation.

…The depth of Muslim immigration’s problems now involve so much despair (and political risk) that they can appear as disincentives for moderate discussion in national election periods.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

While Frenchmen are busy condemning Americans for their prisons and their jail conditions and all kinds of other horrific society failings, French prisons are creating repeat offenders, reveal Franck Johannès and Arthur Frayer on the front page of Le Monde.

The statistics, first of all, are huge: 59% of all prisoners receive a second sentence within five years of their release, and 46% of those receive time behind bars.

Monday, October 17, 2011

They always seemed Syphilitic to me, but apparently the Swiss are looking at an outbreak of the age-old gift that keeps on giving. Buried in the mix is something that goes shunned from speech when it isn’t politically useful: gay men who make up roughly 1 to 1-1/2% of the population have half of all of those cases.

This is bad on two levels. First off is that the efforts to make myths of facts, combat stereotypes, and the like, doesn’t leave those at risk very well informed for something as stupid as identity politics. The other is that it preserves delusions among the rest of the population who in the face of muted information, either over-estimates the risk of straight sex, and not realizing how broadly VD spreads among gays, doesn’t feel compelled to do much for them.

Either way, identity politics is more about the people slinging narratives than the people being “protected” by the political gamers’ efforts.

One of the main reasons that the French can tear into Americans' sins, real or alleged, past or present, is that their own sins are forgotten or minimized or taboo. Another of these occurred 50 years ago, writes Jacques Mandelbaum, when Paris police charged into an Algerian demonstration protesting the Algerian war, leaving 80 to 200 dead, some of them found floating in the Seine river…

While getting a record 99 weeks of unemployment compensation, a fraction of 9.1% who are unemployed try to call themselves “the 99%”.

Which is odd, given that it’s the 53% who pay taxes in the US, which has the most progressive tax structure in the world, that are paying for their food stamps, and compensating for the fact that most of the protesters are useless parasites who willfully made themselves unemployable. Are you going to let someone who wants to “stick it to society” to operate your machinery or touch the RAID on your network?

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Fresh statistics show massive US air superiority over EU, says EU Observer, with the odd tone of unfamiliar detachment, as though the European states’ negligence in not maintaining its military capacity is somehow a surprise and the problem is likely that other nations not doing the same. What’s even sadder is that it’s drawing pointed comparison with their sole defender in the world, not to anyone potentially hostile to them.

The numbers, published by the Brussels-based Eurocontrol on Wednesday (12 October), note that the US has a total of 13,195 military and paramilitary air vehicles compared to 8,111 in the 27 EU countries combined. The EU's top air powers - France (1,339), the UK (1,296), Germany (1,096) and Italy (901) - come nowhere near.